Does anyone have an easy fix when the buttons on digital radios start to play up? Like instant of being the mode button, it because the volume button etc. Has happened to most of my dab radios.
Is there a reset option in the menu or a reset pinhole?
I will try that. I suspect its dust getting into radio, causing the bottom to 50 percent of the time having the wrong function. Its happened to Sony, Sangean and the Bush.
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They were hopeless. It was like watching the WIN mappy grow arms and legs and run around a field for 80 minutes.
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Perhaps better suited to another thread as not specifically AM/FM conversion where this was first discussed:
The trick is for stations to foster an interest in both IT and broadcast technology, work with engineering staff to develop a winning combo of interest over RF engineering and IT.
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And there are barely any stations transmitting RDS 2.0 either, as it requires itās own carrier, just above RDS 1.0, and therefore is not backwards compatible.
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Thanks Josh.
I found your info & this pdf quite enlightening
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Interior lights in modern cars shouldāve moved to power saving LED bulbs.
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a major radio station up here in brisbane was looking for a trainee broadcast engineer. i sent in my resume and got a call about it and as soon as i mentioned i was a licensed ham they seemed to be not interested any more. the thing is i would have been happy as a pig in the proverbial - working in radio in a sector i enjoy. doesnāt matter though. i now work for one of the worlds biggest law firms in the IT department.
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We know it wouldnāt have been 4TAB, retired GM Kempy a big ham and others too, right @4TAB-1008kHz ?
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Screw it, Iāll name them. It was SCA.
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Any of us here for more than five minutes would not be surprised to read of this.
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Licensed ham here to and it helped me get my current and last gigā¦ It shows you have a interested in radio and also shows you donāt just like it in a work environment but also in your spare time.
Damn I even have a VHF Ham rig sitting above the work bench in the engineering office where I work to monitor the local 2 metre repeater 
@crankymedia you will find @4TAB-1008kHz is also a licensed amateur as well 
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I wouldāve thought so and so wouldāve @Tejas57 Iām sure.
What content in on the 2m repeater?
Yes, hence my mention that 4TAB has a long line of licensed amateurs from previous GMs along to present day.
If you can fix your own problems with amateur operations, you can fix the work problems that crop up daily.
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itās been an issue for ages with pre-sets and digital scanning radios, but with DAB where frequencies donāt matter itās going to turn into a bigger issue
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Licensed Amateur as well but not interested get a tech gig.
Living near Shepparton, The ammount of Amateur is huge because of the radio australia site
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Well TV is no longer āChannel 2ā or āTenā or āSevenā etc. I guess 7 never called themselves as ATN to give that local Sydney feel.
The names are āwrongā , WS FM should have the name 2UUS but did not call themselves that.
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Well it was 2WS for Western Sydney when it was on the AM band. Maybe they should have been 2 GWS for Greater Western Sydney.
I like GWS. 
Dont think stations have a choice?
Did 2day pick day? Good question 